Not always but the ones where I leave the punchline to the end I tend to get away with because they're just confused about what I'm saying until then.

I guess that works.

Plus I only go for the longer ones when they're being particularly obnoxious, won't leave, or want to waste my time making sure I understand in detail how terrible it is that I'm a homo.

Haru doesn't look like he hates Yutaka, right? ...he guesses he can't really see much since he's sitting behind Haru but...

The back of Haru's head is not radiating hatred, for whatever that's worth. Noted.

It's a very attractive head he has gone fully insane.

Last night I went out after a witch with Yamanaka Junko-san, by the way.

Oh, how'd that go?

It... could've gone better. Yamanaka-san didn't appreciate me stopping time to deal with the razor petals harassing us or—do anything at all, really. She said I could just be 'insurance'.

Insurance is important!

It... is.

You don't sound convinced.

No, I mean, it is, but it—feels—like I should be able to do more? I mean, I can stop time.

You can and that's very cool! It might not be a very teamwork-shaped power? I dunno.

Maybe. I've only had these powers for a day, I don't really know what—maybe I should look at fiction? There's stories about people with time stop powers and endless fandom wars about those, other people have already thought about this, I don't need to figure it out on my own.

He doesn't know why it took him so long to think about this. Magic isn't real except it's been real in stories forever!

Oh, good thought, I bet there's, like, Reddit threads about it.

Yeah! Oh, I bet I can find useful stuff on the Tsubasa Chronicles sub, TC fans are nuts slash pos.

Should I know Tsubasa Chronicles?

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle is a really old manga series, like, not as old as Sailor Moon but it's from like 2005 or something and it's based on an even older manga called Cardcaptor Sakura which was about a magical girl and she had amongst her powers the ability to stop time, and I know there was a lot of discourse back in the day about how she should best use the billion powers she had.

Sounds promising.

I'm also going after the yakuza later today if you'd like to join me.

...going after them?

Raiding their stashes of weapons so that I can use those against deserving targets, i.e. witches.

You know where to find those??

Not directly, but last night while out with Yamanaka-san I had the thought of going after one of my old schoolmates who I know uses some hard drugs to see if I can get access to their dealer, and then from there work up the chain of criminals.

Seems risky...

We can be invisible and stop time, ideally I wouldn't want them to even notice us.